ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
Does it feel like everyone you know has COVID right now? For a lot of people, the answer is yes. And that's because in many parts of the country, COVID-19 case numbers are going up and up. Much of that increase is being driven by variants of omicron.
Well, Andy Slavitt thinks that this new wave of growth is giving us a glimpse into what endemic COVID will look like once we get there. Slavitt was a senior adviser to President Biden on COVID and was the head of Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama administration. Andy Slavitt, welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.